MEAT PRICES IN COUNTRY.
REDUCTION IN CITY RATES. DECISION BY TRIBUNAL. Country butchers are to be compelled by the Auckland Prices Investigation Tribunal to sell their meat at city prices. This decision has resulted from the evidence collected by the tribunal during its recent tour of the East Coast railway towns.
Many complaints have been made concerning the prices charged by butchers operating in different centres in the Auckland ‘province, and price lists now in the possession of the tribunal show that in certain towns the charge made for various kinds of meat is 2d to 3d a pound in excess of Auckland prices. There are no special circumstances, in the tribunal’s opinion, which warrant these charges, but on the contrary, the evidence supplied goes to show that there are towns where the meat prices shuld be lower than those ruling in Auckland.
A correspondent asks: “Does this affect the Pukekohe butchers.—-Ed, Times,
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Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 626, 22 April 1921, Page 5
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153MEAT PRICES IN COUNTRY. Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 626, 22 April 1921, Page 5
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